BTS solos are also good… US ‘iHeartRadio Awards’ Nominees in 5 categories

Members of the group BTS were nominated for awards in several categories at the U.S. iHeartRadio Music Awards 2024 and left a significant mark through their solo activities.

According to this year’s award candidate list announced by the ‘iHeartRadio Music Awards’ on the 18th (local time), J-Hope, V, and Jungkook won ‘Best Music Video’ #39;, ‘Favorite On Screen’, ‘Favorite Debut Album’, ‘K-Pop Artist of the Year (Kpop Artist Of The Year)’, ‘Kpop Song Of The Year’ etc. were nominated.

The ‘iHeartRadio Music Awards’ is a music awards ceremony hosted by American online radio broadcaster iHeartRadio since 2014. It recognizes the artists and songs most played on iHeartRadio stations and applications during the year. Awards are given. This year’s awards ceremony will be held in Los Angeles, USA on April 1.

J-Hope’s first official solo album ‘Jack In The Box’ is an original Hive documentary that covers the album production process and various activities, ‘Favorite On Screen’ ; was nominated for an award. This year’s ‘Favorite on Screen’ In the category, Beyoncé’s world tour documentary film ‘Renaissance: A FILM by Beyoncé’ and Taylor Swift’s live performance film ‘The Eras Tour. ‘ There are many outstanding works competing against each other.

V and Jungkook were nominated for ‘Favorite Debut Album’ for their first solo albums ‘Layover’ and ‘GOLDEN’, respectively.. ‘Layover’ and ‘Golden’ entered second place on Billboard’s main album chart ‘Billboard 200’. This is the same record as the highest performance by a K-pop solo singer set by Jimin ‘FACE’ and Suga ‘D-DAY’. In particular, ‘Golden’ charted on the ‘Billboard 200’ for 10 consecutive weeks, making it the album that stayed on this chart the longest among K-pop solo singer albums.

Jungkook is nominated for awards in a total of 4 categories, including ‘Best Music Video’, ‘K-Pop Artist of the Year’, and ‘K-Pop Song of the Year’ He set a new record for the most nominations ever for a K-pop solo singer. ‘Best Music Video’ In the category, her Jungkook’s solo singles & # 39; Seven (feat. Latto) & # 39; and & # 39; 3D (feat. Jack Harlow) & # 39; were nominated for awards side by side.

Jungkook was the only one to have more than two songs nominated in this category this year, including Doja Cat’s “Paint The Town Red”and Olivia Rodrigo’s “#39;”39;vampire’ It competes with songs that ranked first on Billboard’s main song chart ‘Hot 100′.

At this year’s ‘iHeartRadio Music Awards’, a new K-pop category was created. Jungkook was the only solo singer nominated for ‘K-Pop Artist of the Year’, and ‘Seven’ was nominated for ‘K-Pop Song of the Year.

‘Seven’ went straight to #1 on Billboard’s ‘Hot 100’ and stayed on the chart for a total of 15 weeks, and based on the world’s largest music streaming platform Spotify, the shortest period in the world (108 days) 10 It left an amazing record, including reaching 100 million streams.

Meanwhile, BTS received ‘Best Fan Army’ They showed off their continued popularity as a group by being nominated in this category. They have been nominated in this category for 7 consecutive years from 2018 to this year. Attention is being paid to whether BTS, which has won the award all six times in the past, will become the winner of ‘Best Fan Army’ this year as well.

Kim Soo-young, Hankyung.com reporter swimmingk@hankyung.com